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SharePoint Online search administration overview

6/21/2018

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SharePoint Online has both a classic and a modern search experience. As a SharePoint Online administrator, you can customize and impact the search experiences for users. Learn about the differences between the classic and modern search experiences. You can define searchable managed properties in the search schema, identify high-quality pages to improve relevance, manage query rules and result sources, and remove individual results. You can also evaluate any changes by viewing reports about usage and search.

The changes you make from the search administration page are valid for the whole tenant, but you can also customize search on site collection level and on site level.

How to get to the search administration page

Sign in to Office 365 as a global admin or SharePoint admin.

Select the app launcher icon in the upper-left and choose Admin to open the Microsoft 365 admin center. (If you don't see the Admin tile, you don't have Office 365 administrator permissions in your organization.)

In the left pane, choose Admin centers > SharePoint.

Choose search in the left pane.

What do you want to do?

Learn how to create a customized search experience by changing the search schema. In the search schema, you can view, create, or change managed properties, and map crawled properties to managed properties.

Learn how to manage search dictionaries. You can use search dictionaries to include or exclude company names to be extracted from the content of your indexed documents, or you can include or exclude words for query spelling correction.

Learn how to add phrases that you want the system to suggest to users as they search for an item, and how to add phrases that you don't want the system to suggest to users. Also, learn how to turn this feature on or off.

Learn how to grant users or groups read access to crawl log information for the tenant. A typical use case is in eDiscovery, where users may need to check whether crawled content was in fact added to the search index.